The Antivanity Mirror by Neil Mendoza is a robotic mirror that won’t let you look at yourself. A perfect gift for the influencer in your life. The piece was originally created entirely from trash while an artist in residence at Recology SF. It was updated for Telfair Museum and is currently on display at their Machines of Futility: Unproductive Technologies exhibition which is open until 12th July 2020.
The mirror is a two way mirror that has a webcam with a wide angle lens hidden behind it. The software to process the camera feed is written in C++ using openFrameworks and uses the deep neural network module in OpenCV to detect faces. The mirror’s motion is controlled by a Teensy using the AccelStepper library. When faces are found, their positions are sent over serial to the microcontroller which moves the mirror until a face is no longer looking at it.
Latest in the series of experiments and explorations into neural networks by Memo Akten is a pre-trained deep neural network able to make predictions on live camera input – trying to make sense of what it sees, in context of what it’s seen before.
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Fantastic Smartphones, alternative accessories, interactive installations and machine performances highlight the excesses relating to our use of these devices. By imagining innovative ways of interacting with our smartphones or by delegating our repetitive actions to machines, this exhibition takes a critical look at a society that has become addicted to an object that seems to have become indispensable : the “smart” phone.
Created by Neil Mendoza, The Electric Knife Orchestra consists of sixteen knives and one meat cleaver (all purchased from the $0.99 store) that have been brought to life to perform the Bee Gee’s hit Stayin’ Alive.
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